A Disaster.

it's been a week and the damage has been done. what damage you ask? well, the bodywork was looking good till the shop decided to speed things up. so seam welds were left as tack welds and some tack welds were left as broken-off tack welds.

was damn pissed off so i told the boss. had to wait for him for about 15 minutes before he arrived, then i pointed all the problems that i could see under the car. all the boss could say was, "ok, can can." i was not impressed at all by the copious amounts of underbody sealant was used to seal up the tack welded parts. i mean, come on man, even though i'm a technical person, don't ASSUME i'll be happy with the welds that you're giving to me. geez...malaysian mentality.




would you accept welding like this?





some sections were still not finished eventhough he said it was! like these,





i have no idea whose work is this but i'll just put it up here cause the current welder was supposed to fix every inch of this car.



so after calling harvinder to come to Ban San ASAP, we spoke to the boss again, ran through most of the stuff that i could see that was wrong with the welding and stressed to him that he can take his own sweet time to fix the car as long as the outcome is fantastic. he confidently said that it's all small problems and that he will have it fixed in 3 days. well i didn't buy it so i visited him yesterday and thank God he wasn't finished. instead, he managed to fix both chassis rails





also, the driver side sill which he totally missed has been fixed
before:

after:


this is another piece of shoddy welding. it's under the rear bumper where he just tack welded a pieve of sheet metal. and he tacked only one side! i could push the metal or rip it out with my bare hands!

the acceptable corrected section:


as you can see, the reworked sections are alot better than what was done to it before. proper plug welds at the sill section instead of tack-welds. i just hope he will continue like this for the other sections. personally i don't think it's that good but i guess i'll have to settle for the quality of local welders. :(